[Press Release] Participated in the development of the "Matsuyo Sanada Family 400-Year History Experience Content Creation Project" by Nagano City, which arranges the menu of the Matsuyo feudal lord's Halle Day in a modern style.

2025/02/06

Mercure Nagano Matsushiro Resort & Spa, a hotel that overlooks the Northern Alps and is ideal for a base for sightseeing in Shinshu, where nature, history, and cities intersect, supports the purpose of Nagano City's 400-year history experience content creation project.

Nagano City uses Matsuyo's attractive cultural properties by maximizing its intrinsic value and giving new charm, and further reinvestment in preservation. Content creation business ”. Mercure Nagano Matsushiro Resort & Spa will develop menus, cook, serve meals, etc. for the important content of "Densama Gozen". "Densama Gozen" is a dish based on the menu of the Matsuyo feudal lord's Halle Day, and is provided at the Sanada House, a palace building built by the Matsuyo feudal lord Yukinori Sanada (Yukinori) at the end of the Edo period.

In the future, Nagano City will consult with travel operators and stakeholders with advice from experts and monitors, and aim to sell `` Tonosama Gozen '' as a travel product along with historical sites related to the Matsuyo Sanada family. . In order to carry out this project, Mercure Nagano Matsushiro Resort & Spa has obtained a restaurant business license at the Sanada residence. We will discuss the use of the Sanada residence with Nagano City and plan to develop it as a hotel original product.

■About 'donoma gozen'

The contents of Hongozen were devised by Mercure Nagano Matsushiro Resort & Spa chef Masahiko Naruta, referring to the historical material "Kaei era Shichitora Year's Zaicheng Naka Diary June Yori Cooking Center".

'Arejochu Nikki' (Diary of Zaicheng)
－June 1854 - May 1855 -

A menu record created when Yukinori Sanada, the ninth lord of the Sanada family, entered Matsuyo for the first time. The lord's "normal menu", "Hare's day menu", and "subjects to vassals" are described, indicating the state of eating and drinking accompanying the ceremony and the taste of the lord. The menu of Hongozen is excerpted from the "Menu of Halle Day" (Otsukimi Feast / New Year's Day / Behavior to Zenko-ji Daikanjin / Birthday Celebration).

[Ichi no zen] Hini abalone, sea bream kelp, bamboo grass root, kuri ginger, wood ear, windproof, miso-zuke salmon, wig ginseng flour bonito boiled, kanishi manju, soup, Kamosen afternoonbo, Shiitake mushrooms, Seri

[Ni no zen] Yakitamago / yam / kanhiyau / renkon / konjac / matsutake mushroom / tofu / yuzu / miso soup / egg pull / vinegar kinuta (ehi) / Tosa yaki (ayu with children) / Untanwa (ren meat) / vinegared ginger / narcissus roll / Sasaki melon / Iwatake mushroom / Sea noodles / Sengin ginger

[San no zen] Ise shrimp / Nunoko / Arako / Makime / Vinegar myoga

[Sogashi] Yokan/red thin skin (Tang peach nectar)/rakugan

■Comments from Mercure Nagano Matsushiro Resort & Spa Chef Masahiko Narita

When I talked about menu development, I thought frankly, "It looks interesting." I received materials from a curator in Nagano City and used them to create menus, but the amount of materials was large and I lacked knowledge, so I had a very difficult time reading the contents of the menus in the literature . This time, `` Tonosama Gozen '' selects two or three dishes from the dishes offered at the milestone banquet at the time, and arranges the Honzen dishes at the time in a modern cooking style, consisting of one to three tables It is composed. It was a story of reproducing the menu from the middle of the 1800s (late Edo period), so we collected local ingredients as much as possible and made it with a cooking method that seems possible even at that time. I would be happy if you could think of that era and enjoy cooking together with the space such as the garden and architecture of Sanada's House with the feeling of becoming a palace.

■About 'Sanada House'

At the end of the Edo period, a building called a new palace built by the 9th feudal lord Yukinori Sanada for his mother-in-law (Sadashoin) is the only building in Matsuyo Castle that remains as it was at that time. It was transferred to Nagano City in 1966 along with treasures from the Sanada family. It is a palace building that has few palace buildings in Japan, and has become a nationally designated historic site.

[Location] Matsushiro 1, Matsushiro-cho, Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture 381-1231　　※About 6 minutes by car from the hotel